A numerical investigation of the eyewall evolution in a landfalling typhoon

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-40

  Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Cheng, Hsiu Ju ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b   Chou, Kun Hsuan ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIZATION; COASTAL REGIONS; CONDENSATION HEATING; DUAL ROLES; ENHANCED SURFACES; EYEWALL; LAND SURFACES; LANDFALLING; LOWER TROPOSPHERES; MESO-SCALE; MESOSCALE MODELS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITIES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POTENTIAL VORTICITIES; RAINBANDS; SURFACE FRICTIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; HEATING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRETCHING; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TERRAIN; TYPHOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; LUZON; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 64149110143     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2516.1     Document Type: Article

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